• So, the topic of data encryption comes up every day in my daily duties. More so than earlier in my travels when folks were oblivious to what was stored in the data layer nor cared about how it was stored, just who and what systems had access to "the data". I'm now delighted to hear business units actively address secure data access AND encrypted data. One of the most surprising dialogs was between a VP of Marketing (whose interest was in mining customer data), a 3rd party resource (who was designing the middleware) and architects actually PLANNING to improve the data hardware to compensate for overhead need to encrypt data as well as designating what data elements needed to be encrypted.

    How does this help me as the DBA in these instances? It's a excellent step towards insuring that whatever measures we take to secure the data are understood and done with a suitable level of transparency that everyone in the project is comfortable with and that's a good thing.

    I'm only saying this to say that increased awareness and implementation of encryption, albeit a bit more work, is an excellent topic well worth the resources spent.

    By the by, kudos for the song references. Still don't think this album got the recognition it

    deserves may throw it on the playlist-of-the-day just because...